Queria estar morta: o suicídio assistido sob a perspectiva da dignidade da pessoa humana

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to perform the interpretation of physician-assisted suicide as a way of exercising the Dignity of the Human Person. This procedure is perceived, when limited to individuals diagnosed with terminal or degenerative diseases, as a way of avoiding the perpetuation of torture-like suffering, since the patient wishes to shorten the process of death, which is the only possible end in terminal cases. To better explain this position, the different conceptions about medical assistance to suicide are presented. It presents the philosophical debate about the morality of the subject under study. Subsequently, through concrete cases, the empirical aspects inherent to the subject are shown, to facilitate the understanding of the reasons that lead the patient to consider assisted suicide as a solution and to justify the understanding defended here that death with dignity is also a right of the human being. Finally, the international perspective is discussed, exposing how the medical assistance to suicide is exercised in some countries, as opposed to the current Brazilian legislation. This work seeks to instigate the questioning about the possibility of the application of physician-assisted suicide in Brazil under the aegis of the principle of Human Dignity, which is listed in its Magna Carta.